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“Some stuff is gonna find a way to happen; once it's got started, you can't stop it no matter what you do.”

Inevitable Tana French Broken Harbor

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“I had forgotten that God, or the world, or whatever carves the rules in stone, doesn't give you time off for good behavior.”

God Tana French Broken Harbor The Powers That Be

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“For as long as I could remember, a part of me had been waiting for the day it would happen; with the cunning that comes to people whose minds have been stripped to one desire, she picked the only day we weren't waiting for.”

Waiting Suicide Tana French Broken Harbor

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“If you're good at this job, and I am, then every step in a murder case moves you in one direction: towards order. We get thrown shards of senseless wreckage, and we piece them together until we can lift the picture out of the darkness and hold it up to the white light of day, solid, complete, clear. Under all the paperwork and the politics, this is the job; this is its cool shining heart that I love with every fiber of mine. This case was different. It was running backwards, dragging us with it on some ferocious ebb tide. Every step washed us deeper in black chaos, wrapped us tighter in tendrils of crazy and pulled us downwards.”

Murder Metaphor Investigation Detective Tana French Broken Harbor

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“All those years of endless excruciating therapy sessions, of staying vigilant over every move and word and thought; I had been sure I was mended, all the breaks healed, all the blood washed away. I knew I had earned my way to safety. I had believed, beyond any doubt, that that meant I was safe.”

Healing Safety Recovery Tana French Broken Harbor Dublin Murder Squad Mick Kennedy Mick Scorcher Kennedy Scorcher Kennedy

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“The sudden, painful flare of envy caught me by surprise. I was a loner, my last few years in school. I could have done with a friend like that.”

High School Envy Friend Loner Broken Harbor

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“It wasn't a remarkable face in any way, but it had a clean-lined sweetness that brought up summer barbecues, golden retrievers, soccer games on new-mown grass, and I have always been caught by the pull of the unremarkable, by the easily missed, infinitely nourishing beauty of the mundane.”

Mundane Tana French Broken Harbor Unremarkable

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